About Last Night: Lyon Opera Ballet Opening Night Party

BAM members didn’t have far to go for the party after the show Wednesday night. As the Lyon Opera Ballet's ni fleurs, ni ford-mustang let out in the Opera House, members at the Supporter level and up made their way to BAM’s Lepercq Space for the Opening Night Party.

Choreographer Christian Rizzo (second from L) talks to Naya, a young dancer who came to see the show with her grandmother

ni fleurs, ni ford-mustangis part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas organized by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Wednesday night at BAM, the Lyon Opera Ballet performed this work choreographed by Christian Rizzo to original sounds created for the show by the electronic musician Gerome Nox.

Christian Rizzo celebrating with Sophie Claudel of the French Embassy and her husband.